“Exploiting people's emotions of fear, envy and anxiety is not hope, it's not change, it's partisanship. We don't need partisanship. We don't need demagoguery, we need solutions.”

“Happiness is not the belief that we don't need to change; it's the realization that we can.”

“If we have not struggled/as hard as we can/at our strongest/how will we sense/the shape of our losses/or know what sustains/us longest or name/what change costs us,/saying how strange/it is that one sector/of the self can step in/for another in trouble,/how loss activates/a latent double, how/we can feed/as upon nectar/upon need?”

“Remember the point of Christinianity isn't to learn a lot of truths so you don't need God anymore. We don't learn God in the abstract.”

“Sometimes it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold on to the most.”

“Sometiems it's those things you can't touch that you need to hold onto most.”

“Let me say for now that we knew once the Creation was broken, true fathering would be much more lacking than mothering. Don't misunderstand me, both are needed- but an emphasis on fathering is necessary because of the enormity of its absence”